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I joined thousands of school nutrition administrators from across the country in Boston this week for their annual conference to share information about how high-poverty school districts can eliminate applications and serve meals to all students at no charge under the new option known as community eligibility. Over and over, I...

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes covered Chicago’s decision to adopt community eligibility, which allows schools with high percentages of low-income children to serve breakfasts and lunches to all children free of charge, for all its schools. The story from earlier this week, which also featured other large districts that have adopted community eligibility, explained how taking the option helps children...

This brief video highlights the key benefits of community eligibility, which allows schools with high percentages of low-income children to serve breakfasts and lunches to all children free of charge. More than 28,000 schools nationwide are eligible. Schools have until August 31 to sign up....

The community eligibility provision, through which schools in high-poverty areas can serve breakfasts and lunches to all students at no charge, is designed to work in many different settings — large school districts or small ones, urban or rural areas, district-wide or in selected schools. Various types of districts have...

Community eligibility, a provision of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, will allow more than 28,000 schools in high-poverty neighborhoods to offer nutritious meals to all students at no charge next year, as we’ve explained. Schools must opt in to take...

CBPP will team up with MomsRising and the Food Research and Action Center in a tweet chat tomorrow (Friday, June 6) at 1 p.m. EDT on community eligibility — an exciting new option for high-poverty schools to serve nutritious breakfasts and lunches at no charge to all students, while reducing paperwork. The June 30...

Participating schools report that community eligibility, which enables schools in high-poverty areas to serve meals to all students at no charge, improves children’s access to healthy meals, cuts paperwork for parents and schools, and makes school meal programs more efficient. Previously available in 11 states, the option will be open to more than 25,000 high-poverty schools and more than 2,...

Today’s the deadline for states to publish lists of schools and school districts eligible next school year for “community eligibility,” which allows schools in high-poverty areas to help address child hunger by serving meals at no charge to all students. The option, now available in 11 states, will expand nationwide this fall for...